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11-28-2006, 01:59 PM
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Northeast recycling effort
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/n...l/16111118.htm
Tue, Nov. 28, 2006 Northeast recycling effort leads to better compliance When Philadelphia officials launched a new recycling initiative for 123,000 residents in the Northeast in July, they said they hoped the recycling rate would increase by 25 percent to 30 percent. The city hoped to get better participation by switching to "single-stream" recycling - meaning residents of the Northeast no longer had to sort their recyclables into different containers. It also added plastics and corrugated cardboard to the list of materials that can be recycled. For the first quarter, recycling has increased by 29 percent, according to the city recycling office. It reported that more than 870 tons of additional materials were collected from July through September than during the same period in 2005. The new method "is proving to be quite a success," Streets Commissioner Clarena I.W. Tolson said in a statement. She said the department hoped to expand the program to other parts of the city. Sandy Bauers 
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11-28-2006, 07:47 PM
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I have to admit that before this new program I was hardly recycling anything but the changes make it easy and convenient. I had to get an additional bin I recycle so much stuff now.
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11-29-2006, 04:17 PM
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My only gripe is: why we don't have weekly like other parts of the City....honestly, it's a pain in the ass to sit on 2 weeks of recycled everything....think about it...you can recycle quite a bit...and everything that is on that list goes into my bins and paper bags that have to supplement the bins...The news papers and circulars alone that I get at this house fill a bag....then you add on soda cans, regular cans, milk bottles (anything plastic with number 2 on the bottom for that matter) cardboard boxes...junk mail.
Years ago when they introduced it to this area, the 2 week cycle was said to be temporary...well, hell its been over 10 years now...how much more temporary can we get? Don't even get me started on if I happen to foget which week it is and don't get the stuff out in time....lol
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11-29-2006, 09:49 PM
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Bins- How can you get more they are unavailable?
This is a great idea, but I tried to get another bin or two and I went to the Ashburner right after they initiated the change and the man said "Oh it will probably be a long time before we get any more"
Why? Because there is no organization with the new recycle plan. The bins should have been in mass quantity and available but they aren't. Unless something has changed let me know.
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12-03-2006, 04:35 AM
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DLD,
The blue bins are relatively easy to come by now. I recently picked up 2 for me and my next door neighbor without too much fuss at Ashburner. They're right outside the guard shack opposite the dumpsters usually.
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12-05-2006, 12:12 AM
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The city doesn't actually make revenue off the recycling program even though their website states that they do. The amount they get from the recycler is minimal, but probably covers the costs for collection personnel. Recycling actually saves revenue by not having to pay the associated costs to take these same things to the dump sites they contract out to. So multiply the tonnage collected .vs the current cost to dump per ton equals savings or revenue if you want to call it that.
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